He makes winds His messengers: lit. He makes His messengers winds. He makes the wind His messengers.

5He founded the earth on its foundations that it not falter to eternity.

היָ֣סַד אֶ֖רֶץ עַל־מְכוֹנֶ֑יהָ בַּל־תִּ֜מּ֗וֹט ע֘וֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד:

6You covered the deep as [with] a garment; the waters stand on the mountains.

ותְּהוֹם כַּלְּב֣וּשׁ כִּסִּית֑וֹ עַל־הָ֜רִ֗ים יַ֖עַמְדוּ מָֽיִם:

You covered the deep as [with] a garment: This is similar to what is said elsewhere (Job 38:9): “When I made the cloud its raiment, etc.”

the deep: That is the sea.

the waters stand on the mountains: The waters of the ocean are higher than the whole world. They stand on the mountains, and so Scripture states (Amos 5:8, 9:6): “He who calls the water of the sea and pours it upon the face of the earth.” Pouring denotes only [pouring] from above downward.

7From Your rebuke they fled; from the sound of Your thunder they hastened away.

זמִן־גַּֽעֲרָתְךָ֥ יְנוּס֑וּן מִן־ק֥וֹל רַֽ֜עַמְךָ֗ יֵחָֽפֵזֽוּן:

From Your rebuke they fled: When You said (Gen. 1:9): “Let the waters gather.” And from that voice they hastened away and gathered in the place that You founded for them.

8They ascended mountains, they descended into valleys to this place, which You had founded for them.